Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
With the unexpected rise of David Paterson to the post of New York governor, much has been written of his historic claims as the state’s first black chief executive and first legally blind leader (the sizable legal blind spot of his immediate predecessor notwithstanding). By comparison, little attention has been paid to his single-handed rescue of a vaunted New York political tradition from the shadows of disrepute: gubernatorial whiskers....
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